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From: Sandy Foster on 9 Sep 2009 19:56 I'm going to upgrade to SL soon, but I'm trying to get all of my ducks in a row first. <g> I have a Canon Pixma MP800, which I currently have hooked to the USB port in my Airport Base Station, allowing both my MacBook and my husband's MacBook (in a different room) to print wirelessly, though I must connect directly to scan; that's fine.� Just today I noticed that Canon has put out new drivers, both printer and scanner, for my all-in-one. The printer driver, though, is CUPS. What exactly does that mean? The version, specifically, is�MP800 CUPS Printer Driver Ver. 10.26.0.0 (Mac OS X 10.5/10.6).� One more question: has anyone already installed this driver in SL? Does it work well? Thanks so much! -- Sandy sw.foster 1 (at) gmail (dot) com (remove/change the obvious) http://www.sandymike.net
From: Jolly Roger on 9 Sep 2009 21:20 In article <invalid-3B4A10.16563209092009(a)news.supernews.com>, Sandy Foster <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > I'm going to upgrade to SL soon, but I'm trying to get all of my ducks > in a row first. <g> I have a Canon Pixma MP800, which I currently have > hooked to the USB port in my Airport Base Station, allowing both my > MacBook and my husband's MacBook (in a different room) to print > wirelessly, though I must connect directly to scan; that's fine.� > > Just today I noticed that Canon has put out new drivers, both printer > and scanner, for my all-in-one. The printer driver, though, is CUPS. > What exactly does that mean? The version, specifically, is�MP800 CUPS > Printer Driver Ver. 10.26.0.0 (Mac OS X 10.5/10.6).� > > One more question: has anyone already installed this driver in SL? Does > it work well? > > Thanks so much! I think you probably won't need to install anything at all. Canon drivers are included in the base install, and what isn't there will be automatically downloaded as needed by the OS when you access the printer. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Sandy on 9 Sep 2009 21:33 In article <jollyroger-732E33.20203109092009(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > In article <invalid-3B4A10.16563209092009(a)news.supernews.com>, > Sandy Foster <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > > > I'm going to upgrade to SL soon, but I'm trying to get all of my ducks > > in a row first. <g> I have a Canon Pixma MP800, which I currently have > > hooked to the USB port in my Airport Base Station, allowing both my > > MacBook and my husband's MacBook (in a different room) to print > > wirelessly, though I must connect directly to scan; that's fine.� > > > > Just today I noticed that Canon has put out new drivers, both printer > > and scanner, for my all-in-one. The printer driver, though, is CUPS. > > What exactly does that mean? The version, specifically, is�MP800 CUPS > > Printer Driver Ver. 10.26.0.0 (Mac OS X 10.5/10.6).� > > > > One more question: has anyone already installed this driver in SL? Does > > it work well? > > > > Thanks so much! > > I think you probably won't need to install anything at all. Canon > drivers are included in the base install, and what isn't there will be > automatically downloaded as needed by the OS when you access the printer. Thanks for the reply, but Canon told me I'd need new drivers last week. Be that as it may, what is a CUPS driver? <G> -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas sw.foster1 (at) gmail (dot) com (remove/change the obvious) http://www.sandymike.net
From: Tom Stiller on 9 Sep 2009 22:05 In article <jollyroger-732E33.20203109092009(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > In article <invalid-3B4A10.16563209092009(a)news.supernews.com>, > Sandy Foster <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > > > I'm going to upgrade to SL soon, but I'm trying to get all of my ducks > > in a row first. <g> I have a Canon Pixma MP800, which I currently have > > hooked to the USB port in my Airport Base Station, allowing both my > > MacBook and my husband's MacBook (in a different room) to print > > wirelessly, though I must connect directly to scan; that's fine.� > > > > Just today I noticed that Canon has put out new drivers, both printer > > and scanner, for my all-in-one. The printer driver, though, is CUPS. > > What exactly does that mean? The version, specifically, is�MP800 CUPS > > Printer Driver Ver. 10.26.0.0 (Mac OS X 10.5/10.6).� > > > > One more question: has anyone already installed this driver in SL? Does > > it work well? > > > > Thanks so much! > > I think you probably won't need to install anything at all. Canon > drivers are included in the base install, and what isn't there will be > automatically downloaded as needed by the OS when you access the printer. Yeah, but if the printer is network connected, SL doesn't see it without a driver and won't load a driver until it sees it. Can you say "Catch-22?" -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
From: Doug Anderson on 9 Sep 2009 22:21
Sandy <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> writes: > In article <jollyroger-732E33.20203109092009(a)news.individual.net>, > Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > > In article <invalid-3B4A10.16563209092009(a)news.supernews.com>, > > Sandy Foster <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > > > > > I'm going to upgrade to SL soon, but I'm trying to get all of my ducks > > > in a row first. <g> I have a Canon Pixma MP800, which I currently have > > > hooked to the USB port in my Airport Base Station, allowing both my > > > MacBook and my husband's MacBook (in a different room) to print > > > wirelessly, though I must connect directly to scan; that's fine.� > > > > > > Just today I noticed that Canon has put out new drivers, both printer > > > and scanner, for my all-in-one. The printer driver, though, is CUPS. > > > What exactly does that mean? The version, specifically, is�MP800 CUPS > > > Printer Driver Ver. 10.26.0.0 (Mac OS X 10.5/10.6).� > > > > > > One more question: has anyone already installed this driver in SL? Does > > > it work well? > > > > > > Thanks so much! > > > > I think you probably won't need to install anything at all. Canon > > drivers are included in the base install, and what isn't there will be > > automatically downloaded as needed by the OS when you access the printer. > > > Thanks for the reply, but Canon told me I'd need new drivers last week. > > Be that as it may, what is a CUPS driver? <G> CUPS stands for Common Unix Printing Solution. The idea then is that unix based OSes that use CUPS can then all use the same driver (that runs under cups) for a particular printer. |